• The Things I Will Need Before Abandoning Firefox

    08-14-2009 2:17 PM

    I should start by saying that Firefox has all but driven me away.  I can no longer ignore the way the performance has continued to deteriorate with successive versions.  I'm almost ready to switch to something else until they get their act together.  But the fact is that, for me, what Firefox offers is really hard to beat.

    So this is my list of must-haves before I'll consider using another browser setup on a regular basis.  I'm a professional web developer, and like many people reading this, I'm also an internet junkie.  So this isn't going to be the typical feature set.

    High Performance and Responsiveness

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  • Firefox Comment Rendering, It's Not A Bug! But We'll Fix It

    08-02-2009 12:07 AM

    Ran into an issue recently with how Firefox renders HTML comments.  Everyone here knows what comments look like right?

    
<!-- This is a comment. -->
<!--
        They can also span
        multiple lines.
-->

    Pretty straight forward. And you would think it's easy to identify when rendering. Once you see the "<!--" then ignore everything until you see "-->".  Except Firefox doesn't do that exactly.  It turns out if you have 2 dashes or hyphens contained in the comment, Firefox will prematurely end the comment.  And probably break your page.  Example:

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